Pro-European views in the epistolary heritage of P. Kulish

Abstract

Introduction. The epistolary heritage of Panteleimon Kulish is nebulized on the different archived establishments of not only Ukraine but also the world. Clear that it is not all places, where the manuscripts of P. Kulish are presently kept. Already the presence of this fact convincingly leads to the outstanding of the figure of P. Kulish and his value for the Ukrainian culture on the whole. His name many years not only was suppressed (his work was forbidden for the Ukrainian reader), and yet and wrong was trafficked, that inflicted incorrigible consequences for perception his descendants. Time to revive the invaluable forgotten treasures of not only Ukrainian literature but also culture came, therefore. To enter in a scientific appeal the epistolary achievements of Kulish as informative resource in the archives of Ukraine, that give an opportunity newly to read his folias and analyse pro-Europe conceptions of development of the Ukrainian culture and histories that are very actual in our stormy to us time . Actuality. In 1920th the considerable array of epistolary inheritance of Kulish is given out, that and put beginning to scientific approach in edition of epistolary texts of kulish. But, unfortunately, nobody more in detail is stopped on an aspect exactly of European principles of Kulish, that is formed on historical national soil: Ukraine is not only included in that but also creates him. The aim of the article consists in the scientific reconstruction of epistolary inheritance of Pantelejmon Kulish, Ukraine concentrated in archives, and also in the exposure of European principles, what creations of the Ukrainian national culture fixed in basis. Research methodology is based, first of all, on the methods of archive, and also on a biographic analysis (for the reconstruction of vital and creative way), on a historical analysis (for the recreation of chronologic limits in that there was correspondence between addressees), cultural and historical method (sent to the exposure of European principles of construction of Ukrainian society). Conclusions. Correspondence is an inexhaustible additional source in a study to not only activity or to history of person or establishment but also reflections of feelings, ideas, ideas that managed a sender in the moment of creation of sheet. Letters of Kulish are a living chronicle of our cultural and national life during a half a century – from a 40th to 90th XX century. Character Kulisha is character of living man, with her defects, alarms, eternal search of ideal, that changed opinions and looks, but inflexibly believed in truth of the Ukrainian national idea. Exactly on national principles lines up to the Europe an conception development and activity of any society. That is why Kulish was the first of that time Ukrainian European and it was brightly represented in his lettres. Key words: P. Kulish, lettre, epistola, European context, national self-definition.